Photo from Catholic Foreign Mis^i 

 HUNTING WITH EAGLES IN CHINA 



Falconry, that sport now long extinct, was one of the joys of our tnediKval ancestors. 

 Like printing and the mariner's cotnpass, which are comparatively modern in the West, 

 falconry has been known in China from time immemorial. In Europe the female of the 

 peregrine falcon — one of the smallest of eagles — was alone used in this sport; but in China 

 much larger birds are trained for the chase, birds far too large to sit on the hand, as the 

 peregrines used to do when our forefathers followed the sport. 



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